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Song Walk, Day 31 Friday 25th August, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 25 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Exercise, Song Walk
Total, hour of walking. 5215 steps.
Busy all day, lists of things to do, so Jeff and I went for a walk in the twilight. We had to drop a ticket for the Theatre’s fundraiser pontoon cruise off at a nearby friends, so we decided to make that our walk.
We left around 7:30, and got to her house about 8:00, and met her in the driveway. We talked for a good hour about art and life and plants and rain and cats and guinea hens and wild turkeys and foundations and advisory boards and pro-bono websites and sunsets and restaurant dinners.
She went in for her dinner (take away, which had been sitting in the car for the duration of our impromptu chat, and we walked home.
We did a loop round through the new development that has sprung up near her house, where the trees all used to be. Made some of our conversation with her much more meaningful and pertinent and happy making. About a half hour home.
Song Walk, Day 30 Thursday 24th August, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 24 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Exercise, Song Walk
The power was off, due to the big, quick, thunder and lightning and rain storm. We left around 7:15, and came back about 7:45. Forgot the pedometer, but they’re erractic anyway, so not a big deal.
We walked over towards the high-school and around in a big loop. Lovely weather, the rainstorm left a nice cool breeze and cooled the air completely. Not one of those storms they have here where the humidity is worse after the rain than before.
Song Walk, Day 29 Wednesday 8/23, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 23 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Exercise, Song Walk
8:39 – 9:01 21 minutes, 10 seconds.
Both pedometers on right hip. Blue one; 2635 steps, red one, 13.
3.54 Crystal Ball – Keane (Under the Iron Tree)
4.25 Electrical Storm – U2 (Best of 19900 – 2000)
3.34 I’ll Be That Girl – BNL (Stunt)
2.46 Into the Dark – Ben Lee (awake is the New Sleep)
3.04 On the beat Pete – Madness (Absolutely)
3.27/3.45 Take a Chance on Me – Erasure (Abba-esque)
Song Walk Day 28 Tuesday 8/22/06
Posted by Administrator on 22 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Exercise, Song Walk
9:26 – 9:48 no steps fucking pedometers (6 & 21). Band on shorts too tight? I wore my green boy shorts, and they’re quite fitting.
1. Opening Credits: Take me Out – Franz Ferdinand(Franz Ferdinand) 3.57
2. Waking Up: Walk to the Water – U2 Best of 1980-1990
3. Falling in Love: Owner of a Lonely Heart – Yes (90125) 4.30
4. Fight scene: Bohemian Like you – Dandy Warhols 3.29
5. Breaking up: Jesus of Suburbia (Includes Jesus of Suburbia, City of the Damned, I Don’t Care, Dearly Beloved, Tales of Another Broken Home – Green Day (American Idiot) 9.08 .
Song Walk, day 27, Monday August 21, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 21 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Exercise, Song Walk
PT in the morning before work, theatre board meeting at 6:30PM, belly dancing 7:30 – 9:15PM.
Jeff and I went for a night time walk, 9:25PM til 9:50PM. All footpaths, all with street lights. The pedometer says 1700 steps. Close enough!
Song Walk, Day 26, Sunday August 20th, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 20 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Exercise, Song Walk
7:46 – 813PM
Too damn hot and humid during the day. Woke up around 10, and it was already too hot for walking.
Hot plus humid plus no central-air equals perfect day to hang around the house, laying in bed, under the ceiling fan, eating farm share, fridge chilled watermelon and catching a four hour re-running of the first four episodes of Season 1 of Life on Mars.
Went for a walk in the twilight with Jeff, over to Glasstown avenue and around the loop. A little twingy at the lower part of my spine from the all-day lounging meant we walked a little slower than usual. My pedometers both went on strike. The blue one registered 3 steps, and the red one only registered 1300 steps. Despite the slower walking pace, it wasn’t *that* slow.
I want a new pair of
Song Walk, Day 25, Sat August 19th, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 19 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Exercise, Song Walk
8:03 8:23 19.51 minutes 2310 steps blue pedometer. Red “Princess unless it’s placed just so!” pedometer 3 steps.
same walk as the last couple of days, around the two nearest streets in loops
2.24 (I’m not Your) Stepping Stone – Monkees
2.01 Stairway to Heaven – Neil Pepper (Elvis – The Money or the Gun)
3.24 Extraordinary – Liz Phair (Liz Phair)
3.14 Banks of the Ohio – Oliva Newton John (Singles Collection)
2.00 She’s a Rebel – Green Day
3.21 Gamble Everything for Love – Ben Lee (Awake is the New Sleep
2.27 Gay Paranoia (Mashup Black Sabbath vs Electric 6) dinbot.com
1.00/3.49 Generals and Majors – XTC
Song Walk, Day 24, Friday 8/18/2006
Posted by Administrator on 18 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Exercise, Song Walk
8:23 – 8:44 19.51
blue pedomter right hip 2613 steps (red pedometer was on left hip,and only registered 12 steps. feh.)
2:03 Song 2 – Blur
3.08 Queen of Hearts – Dave Edmunds (Best of Dave Edmunds)
4.26 I Knew the Bride – Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit (The Rose of England)
3.33 When the Generals Talk – Midnight Oil
3.57 The Mayor of Simpleton – XTC (Fossil Fuel)
2.44/3.10 Embarrassment – Madness (Absolutely)
Same route as 8/17
Song Walk, Day 23, Thursday 8/17/06
Posted by Administrator on 18 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Exercise, Song Walk
7:58 – 8:18 – 19.12 minutes
Red pedometer right hip .91 miles 2655 steps
Blue Pedometer, left hip 2506
3.06 Is it any Wonder – Keane (Under the Iron Tree)
4.22 Indian Summer Sky – U2 (The Unforgettable fire)
4.03 Ball room Blitz – Sweet (Billboard Top 100 – 1975)
3.41 Warning – Green Day (International Superhits)
3.59 Hey Ya – Outkast (Single)
Right out of my street, onto G, down to the next side street, round in a loop, back out to G street, right, to the next side street, round the first side of the horseshoe, across that street, and back around the other side of the horseshoe. Left onto G, back to 10th, around in a small loop to the right on G, and back to my street, and house.
I felt like this was a faster walk, or more steps. Have to check my previous days and see.
Song Walk Day 22, Wednesday 8/16/06
Posted by Administrator on 16 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Exercise, Song Walk
7:19 – 8.35PM
Walked at night, because PT started at 8;30, and I needed the sleep more than the morning walk. Walked after getting a quote on filling our pool. $2K. What I’m happy about is that we can actually afford that with only a little moving around of bills. That’s not something we could always say/do.
Blue pedometer on right hip. 2814 steps.
Red pedometer on left hip. Didn’t work, even 10 minutes in. Moved it to a pocket, and now it shows 3988 steps, or 1.38 miles. Need a better measurement device!!
Walked out of our street, to the right, over to Glasstown Road, up around the circle at Wheaton Village, through the carpark past the Paperwaiter, around to the left onto a small portion of Wade Boulevard (past a tour bus decked out for the U16 Babe Ruth world series girl’s softball thingy), around into the new (like a couple of years ago now new) pre-school adapted from an office building-building, down to the end of the street that joins onto Glasstown, around onto Whittaker (quick chat with a friend who stopped her truck when she saw us to say hi; lives a little further up), back onto 10th street, round onto G and then home.
It’s nice to walk longer when we have the time. I did notice that my left knee was a little twingy. Not quite stretched, or too stretched by walking? Left leg has the glass-shards feeling in the back of my heel when I stretch my left foot in a hamstring stretch, and my left ankle is a little dodgy, has been known to feel like it’s about to make me fall.
When I finish the PT, and the basic GP bloodwork, I’m booking a gynae appointment (cause it’s been a while, plus I have to get a base-level mammogram) and maybe talk to the arthritis Dr who prescribed the shoulder PT about my left leg, see if he deals with that too.
Odd thing; they give prescriptions here for mammograms and PT. I think I’m used to maybe a referral? Or perhaps I never got to that stage of anything in Oz. I’ll have to ask my Mum what her specialists do.